February 11, 2010 – 6:40 am
The young author of the long-time best-seller “Everything is Illuminated” Jonathan Safran Foer has written a new book, “Eating Animals” about the virtues of veganism. One of his arguments has to do with the connection between the H1N1 influenza virus and large-scale concentrated animal feeding operations — defined by the Environmental Protection Agency as agricultural [...]
December 22, 2009 – 8:27 am
While cases of the A(H1N1) “swine” influenza virus are on the decline in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, Senior World Health Organization (WHO) official, Keiji Fukuda said that it is too early to declare the pandemic “over” – as it does continue in parts of Europe and Central Asia at “high-levels”. The flu is probably [...]
November 4, 2009 – 10:38 pm
President Barack Obama has declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency. He has told his health secretary to suspend federal guidelines at hospitals and speed the process of treating infected people. In other words, he has directed Health and Human Services chief Kathleen Sebelius to bypass federal rules when opening alternative care sites, such [...]
September 1, 2009 – 12:45 am
A couple of days ago, we reported that WHO had issued a warning concerning a virulent strain of H1N1. Well, we hope that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe doesn’t have that one, because he has just contracted Swine Flu. Uribe, 57, started feeling a bit fluish on Friday, the very same day he was at a [...]
August 31, 2009 – 12:54 am
We’re generally not the ones to fuel media hype about swine flu. I mean, really, what can you seriously do to prepare for the eventuality of infection? Not much, if anything, besides be self-aware and seek immediate medical attention when you have any symptoms. That, and if you smoke and are overweight, quit and lose [...]
While it is still summer in the Northern Hemisphere, many people are really not aware that the H1N1 flu virus, otherwise known as swine flu is still very much with us and is due to make a very unpleasant appearance in many North American and European communities once the weather starts turning cooler this fall. [...]
The US Federal Department of Agriculture (FDA) is trying to censure all companies producing natural product remedies which are labeled as being effective in treating the H1N1 influenza virus, otherwise known as swine flu. The situation appears to be getting so intense that the FDA is putting out notices against these companies, saying” “Firms that [...]
The death of an assistant principal in New York City, along with a few other disturbing factors, may indicate that the H1N1 influenza, otherwise known as swine flu, may be spreading faster in the US than previously thought. The death on Saturday of the asst. principal is the first confirmed death in NYC from the [...]
The first death in NYC is an assistant manager at a Queens school. I stopped hearing about the H1N1 Novel Influenza A in the last few days and I sort of assumed it was gearing down. In most of the news sources I read that the flu is for the most part mild but is [...]
New developments in the ongoing swine flu epidemic appears to connect this “cocktail” of swine, avian and human influenza viruses to large “factory farms” operated by the giant Smithville Foods swine farms in Mexico. The flu outbreak, now listed officially by the World Health Organization at Level 5 (regional epidemic proportions) is on the verge [...]
